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(we assumed the neighbors were cooking in their kitchen thru the wall.) i hate to be a conspiracy theorist, but if the smell was coming through the water pipes, that's really not so good...</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-101075 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-101075 Comments Fri, 17 Feb 2006 06:38:43 -0500 <p>I KID YOU NOT.... MAPLE SYRUP URINE DISEASE Quoting jay (posted: October 28, 2005)... this seemslike the most reasonable explanation. The sweetness made me suspect it was something like that. Ugh... "I kid you not....Maple syrup urine disease " Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) is caused by the inability to metabolize the branched-chain amino acids leucine, isoleucine, and valine. The disease is called MSUD because urine from affected people smells like maple syrup." http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000373.htm"</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-97400 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-97400 Comments Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:05:55 -0500 <p>Smell it in Astoria. AGAIN. It's making me crazy. It feels like I am covered in it.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-97399 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-97399 Comments Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:05:42 -0500 <p>Yes, the syrupy smell is quite strong here on the UWS. 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It just reduces one's sense of control to not know what it is.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-91298 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-91298 Comments Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:27:00 -0500 <p> Ok People, it was quite apparent what is going on... the US government does not rule out the threat of potential deployment of nuclear products by enemies of the United States. As the duty of the US government to protect the people. The 2nd line of defense is to preserve; in case attack is inevitable.... So they study the NYC area for testing simulated cloud patterns of dispersal if something were to happen(Similar concept of chemical release...but they tested with some placebo). Don't worry, it's just an effort to better study the US terrain and potential pattern of effected by possible future actions...and thus know what population is at risk and how many to treat,etc...An attempt to gain Central Intelligence of ourselves!!! So Get over it. The worst thing that will happen??? Maple syrup stock will go up on the NYSE and/or there will be a run on maple syrup in the NYC area for a while... My suggestion(monroe doctrine!!!): Eat some good pancakes next time you smell it! PS- Mrs. butterworth sucks, try some grade A canadian maple syrup!!</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-87219 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-87219 Comments Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:57:03 -0500 <p>Little Falls NJ, we smell it now... 11pm</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-87011 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-87011 Comments Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:19:36 -0500 <p>We smell it at 5:27 p.m. on 12/12 in a building on East 60th Street.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-86827 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-86827 Comments Sun, 11 Dec 2005 01:40:12 -0500 <p>I smelled maple syrup in the air thursday in Edgewater NJ. </p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-86736 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-86736 Comments Fri, 09 Dec 2005 23:23:07 -0500 <p>The smell is caused by a component, (benzoic acid), of a new anti-freeze solution they spray on sidewalks and streets to keep ice from coating them.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-86720 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-86720 Comments Fri, 09 Dec 2005 20:01:37 -0500 <p>I just heard about it.Weird.I hope we're not being invaded by some gigantic extraterrestial pancake lovers.lol.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-86702 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-86702 Comments Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:29:47 -0500 <p>I smelled something like maple syrup in the Bronx (Kingsbridge road area) at about 4:30pm that day. 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But then i saw the news and i saw something weird was going on</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-86662 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-86662 Comments Fri, 09 Dec 2005 12:40:41 -0500 <p>I smelled the maple syrup in manhattan on W 57th and again in brooklyn!</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-86624 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-86624 Comments Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:03:26 -0500 <p>I do remember smelling this in the mid '70s when I lived near Columbia Univ. I'm glad we don't have this problem in Brooklyn. It used to drive me nuts.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-86572 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-86572 Comments Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:55:53 -0500 <p>It's baaaaack! I was down at Harlem, on December 1st of this year. And I was going for my usual power walk from 145th Street, to my local Pathmark in Harlem. I smelled the syrup immediately, and I thought that maybe Mrs. Butterworth, or Aunt Jemimah had committed suicide by drowning themselves in the Harlem River. The so-called News People don't seem to know what the smell is either. It may seem harmless at first guys, but you never know. I've heard of dangerous chemicals that give off sweet smells, whether natural or added by man. Such as the Natural Gas smell. Try not to inhale too much. Someone out there knows what it is, and may or may not tell us sooner or later. If they don't, we may have a new Urban Legend for this new Millennium.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-86512 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-86512 Comments Thu, 08 Dec 2005 21:58:05 -0500 <p>I smelled it today as well. 3:00 PM on the Columbia campus.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-86433 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-86433 Comments Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:55:07 -0500 <p>upper west side too</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-86406 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-86406 Comments Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:16:09 -0500 <p>it's definitely back. i smelled it the whole way on a walk from greene and grand to broadway and bond. soho is full of maple! </p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-86379 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-86379 Comments Thu, 08 Dec 2005 13:14:32 -0500 <p>it seems that strange maple syrup smell that wafted through the city in late october is back. i'm in the 23rd and bdway area and it's pretty strong. did they ever figure out what it was???</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-81385 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-81385 Comments Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:19:56 -0500 <p>Someone on a ufo web site Reported seeing several Unknown Objects above the skies before that maple night.Was there more people who seen anything that night? Was there a Burning Pancake Factory?Government Cover Up? A Religious Experience? Ends of Times? Who Knows! I Think we Can Handle the Truth after all New Yorkers and the world have gone Through.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-80428 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-80428 Comments Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:47:23 -0500 <p>Here's a possible explanation. The chemical responsible for the maple syrup aroma in your Aunt Jemima's is called methyl cyclopentenolone, or MCP for short. When used in really small proportions (10 parts per million or so), it imparts a maple-like flavor and aroma to foods. It is approved by the FDA for use in food, so the danger of smelling it is up for debate. It seems to be a volatile solid at room temperature. 'Volatile' just means that it evaporates readily (thus the smell), not that it is unstable or explosive. By googling "methyl cyclopentenolone" and searching for manufacturers, you'll find that many of them are in China. New Jersey has a large chemical industry, some of which serves the American food industry. A lot of chemicals come and go from the ports there. Maybe a big container of MCP ruptured when being loaded off a ship from China. The stuff might just be powerful-smelling enough to set up a maple stink in the city, if the winds were right. A westerly wind would have taken the odor across Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. Incidentally, benzoic acid is also in a lot of food we eat. It is a common preservative, usually as a sodium salt called sodium benzoate. It doesn't smell or taste like maple, so far as I can tell. Most soft drinks contain lots of it. </p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-80359 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-80359 Comments Wed, 02 Nov 2005 12:27:39 -0500 <p>i smelled it again on monday, and posted on craigslist to see if anyone else had the same experience, but no response. has anyone here smelled it again after the initial experience last thursday? </p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-80211 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-80211 Comments Tue, 01 Nov 2005 21:06:24 -0500 <p>The weird thing was that on Sunday, 11:30 am I was fishing Plum Gut off of Orient Point on the north east fork of Long Island when I definitely caught a whiff of "the Smell". It freaked me out because it was so far from the city, and it was unmistakable. I haven't heard anyone compare the smell to sweet pipe tobacco. But that's what first came to mind at first whiff. I first smelled it Thursday evening in Astoria. Near Ditmars and Steinway. Is anyone using archived weather data like wind speed and direction to track down the source? I thought it might be some food additive chemical company in New Jersey.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-80086 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-80086 Comments Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:32:18 -0500 <p>Re "apparently" smelling it in Astoria - I just heard about this smell (I went out of town Friday morning, didn't watch news or come online until now), but you could DEFINITELY smell it in Astoria - I checked my Trillian logs just to be sure it happened to me on the same night. I said to a friend around midnight, "I just got the strongest whiff of syrup," and we then talked about other stuff for awhile. Every couple of minutes, I was all "Man! Syrup again!" I live near Steinway & 20th Ave., waaaaay up there.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-80085 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-80085 Comments Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:31:21 -0500 <p>Re "apparently" smelling it in Astoria - I just heard about this smell (I went out of town Friday morning, didn't watch news or come online until now), but you could DEFINITELY smell it in Astoria - I checked my Trillian logs just to be sure it happened to me on the same night. I said to a friend around midnight, "I just got the strongest whiff of syrup," and we then talked about other stuff for awhile. Every couple of minutes, I was all "Man! Syrup again!" I live near Steinway & 20th Ave., waaaaay up there.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-80057 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-80057 Comments Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:04:17 -0500 <p>We smelled it overnight on the UWS. Thing is, I recall smelling it on the commute home one night over a week before in the subway around the B/F/D at 42nd. Only one other poster has claimed smelling it earlier - and it also was in a subway. Anyone else?</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79943 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79943 Comments Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:13:46 -0500 <p>I took a CPR/First aid certification... and the guys who taught it were these EMTs who have seen and know everything about safety... and I remember them saying that if you're going down to the train and you smell cinnamon rolls or cookies, turn around and get out... that "they" attach a pleasant smell to harmful substances to make you linger and inhale it further... I thought about all that when the maple syrup thing came up and thought holy crap... anything is possible... i still smell it here and there. does anyone else?</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79915 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79915 Comments Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:15:00 -0500 <p>I could smell it all the way out here in DALLAS TX!!?! (just kidding) very strange.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79914 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79914 Comments Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:14:37 -0500 <p>I could smell it all the way out here in DALLAS TX!!?! (just kidding) very strange.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79909 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79909 Comments Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:14:09 -0500 <p>Still puzzling over this. I live in Des Moines Iowa and Friday evening upon returning home my wife told me she was craving waffles all day long after experiencing a smell on her way to work (Friday 6:30AM) to downtown Des Moines, Iowa. I showed her the story I seen on the Drudge web site and she exclaimed that was the same smell!! Folks, something is going on and it wasn't just in the NYC area........very strange.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79898 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79898 Comments Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:57:11 -0500 <p>I smelled it walking home from a friend's apt in Stuyvesant town to my place on 28th and 2nd. The only thing I could think of at the time was that it must have been the combination of the SIX Dunkin Donuts that I pass on the way home all making something at the same time, and the smell, which smelled caramelly and sweet to me, almost made me go in and buy their carameled blended-coffee drink were it not for the 40 degree weather. I'm glad I found that this was more than Dunkin Donuts because I smelled it all the way home and was actually rather lightheaded by the time I got back from taking in huge whiffs every breath to see if the smell was STILL there, which it always was!</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79897 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79897 Comments Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:56:11 -0500 <p>I smelled it walking home from a friend's apt in Stuyvesant town to my place on 28th and 2nd. The only thing I could think of at the time was that it must have been the combination of the SIX Dunkin Donuts that I pass on the way home all making something at the same time, and the smell, which smelled caramelly and sweet to me, almost made me go in and buy their carameled blended-coffee drink were it not for the 40 degree weather. I'm glad I found that this was more than Dunking Donuts because I smelled it all the way home and was actually rather lightheaded by the time I got back from taking in huge breaths every time to see if the smell was STILL there, which it always was!</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79896 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79896 Comments Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:55:41 -0500 <p>I smelled it walking home from a friend's apt in Stuyvesant town to my place on 28th and 2nd. The only thing I could think of at the time was that it must have been the combination of the SIX Dunkin Donuts that I pass on the way home all making something at the same time, and the smell, which smelled caramelly and sweet to me, almost made me go in and buy theyre carameled blended-coffee drink were it not for the 40 degree weather. I'm glad I found that this was more than Dunking Donuts because I smelled it all the way home and was actually rather lightheaded by the time I got back from taking in huge breaths every time to see if the smell was STILL there, which it always was!</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79894 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79894 Comments Sun, 30 Oct 2005 20:41:51 -0500 <p>I'm from Michigan, so I'm anxious to know if anyone still smells this, and where. My husband knows a great deal about cars, and told me that antifreeze, when heated (especially during combustion, the main reason antifreeze would ever be heated) smells just like pancakes. He said the most common cause is if the heater core malfunctions, you'll smell it when you're driving and get a craving for pancakes.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79888 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79888 Comments Sun, 30 Oct 2005 19:49:51 -0500 <p>What you are smelling is a whale's vagina!</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79834 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79834 Comments Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:24:17 -0500 <p>This smell has come down from God. It is has to do with the holy month of Ramadan for mulsims The last 10 days of the month of Ramadan are called the "Nights of Power" where god sits the first sky the closest to earth and look over his worshipers and answer their prayers. At that God also sends angles for all of whose spend the night praying and asking forgiveness. The angles spray the the sky with fruity smell -maple like kind of smell" Hope that helps Thank you Nick</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79809 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79809 Comments Sun, 30 Oct 2005 07:22:00 -0500 <p>I was on a subway car about a week before this incident where I and other passengers on the train smelled a strong odor of maple syrup. We were talking about how strange this was and actually started to look around for a "spill". I am not making this up.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79800 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79800 Comments Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:41:30 -0500 <p>I may be late in logging this message, but I only just now learned that what I smelled Thursday night was not just in my apartment and not my imagination! Holy Moly! I was sitting here in my living room, at 28th & 2nd Ave. in Manhattan and this Maple Syrup smell just kept wafting through the apartment. It disturbed me because it was intrusive I couldn't explain it. I wondered if I was imagining it. As for what might have caused the smell, I have a different take on it than the speculation I've read. I don't think it was a chemical spill or a terrorist test. My vote is that it was a secret government experiment to see how quickly and extensively a gaseous substance would spread under certain conditions. Perhaps the NYPD or Dept. of Homeland Defense conducted a test to study the possible effects of a terrorist release of toxins??? It would seem that an industrial accident would be easy enough to trace and I doubt that terrorist would risk being detected with a widespread test right in the most important city in world. However, clearly it was SOMETHING. Either nature farted or it was a government test. </p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79794 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79794 Comments Sun, 30 Oct 2005 02:33:21 -0500 <p>Wow - I just found out about this story because the fake news on SNL made a joke about it. I'm FREAKING OUT because I was smelling that hardcore in my apartment in Hell's Kitchen the other night (seems like most of the Manhattan smell locations were on the west side). I just assumed it was my building's heat that was making the smell because I turned it on for the first time that night and it's my first winter in the building. I was wondering if my apartment was going to smell like that from now on. Guess not. I am truly concerned that this may be terror related somehow. Perhaps it's something that will slowly kill or otherwise harm us. Then again it could have been non-terror related too - but either way WE SHOULD KNOW WHY. They are not taking this seriously at all as far as I can tell. I hope the election doesn't have anything to do with it. If anybody has any answers please post them here!!! PS - anybody else feel like they are coming down with something. Maybe I'm just coming down with something - but if all of us feel like we're coming down with something that could mean trouble. </p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79778 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79778 Comments Sat, 29 Oct 2005 23:09:24 -0500 <p>I don't get why the news media isn't more on top of it. I guess because it wasn't a BAD smell (I thought to myself, "I must go buy some maple and brown sugar flavored instant oatmeal tomorrow, for it is delicious"). I'm definitely freaked out about the possibility of terrorist baddies testing how far and fast an airborne toxin can spread, and more freaked out about how the story's dying and so few people seem at all alarmed!!!</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79758 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79758 Comments Sat, 29 Oct 2005 19:44:09 -0500 <p>Even if the city found something serious out about the smell, they probably wouldn't even tell us...they don't want the whole city freaked out going nuts</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79670 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79670 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 23:26:11 -0500 <p>just suppposing the air is filled with a sweet smell and it's a good thing....if bad things can happen, good things can happen too...maybe the sweetness is hard to accept, but smell it, it's out there.....</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79666 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79666 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:33:26 -0500 <p>smelt it on the street, in the LES last night. just assumed it was coming from a restaurant... it would make sense if this was a test of some kind. the city & police run all kinds of crazy drills around the city all the time. it would also explain the reason why no one has claimed responsibility, as well as why cops & emergency workers were spotted by commenters at two major train stations. didnt we also have a strange unexplained gas smell in queens & long island last summer?? </p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79656 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79656 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:42:33 -0500 <p>I smelled it on the border of Ditmas Park and Midwood in BK. On one hand, it's sort of amusing, but on the other very scary that presumably one source can spread a smell over a huge area, that according to this thread seems to have stretched from Jersey to Connecticut to BK. Wonder if there's any relation to the fact that Halloween is coming up? Could be terrorist "testing" or could be U.S. government testing to see what terrorists could do. Who knows. I do hope the gov can get to the bottom of it.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79655 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79655 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:41:43 -0500 <p>i smelt it all afternoon and evening, thought i was going mad or had some sinus illness. i smelt it at work on 33rd st, then in the subway - then home in the financial district. it's a smell i've caught whiff of before - someone suggested in the past that it was anti-freeze.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79654 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79654 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:40:42 -0500 <p>i smelt it all afternoon and evening, thought i was going mad or had some sinus illness. i smelt it at work on 33rd st, then in the subway - then home in the financial district. it's a smell i've caught whiff of before - someone suggested in the past that it was anti-freeze.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79651 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79651 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:19:44 -0500 <p>i was on 34th and 8th outside a movie theater when I smelled it and i thought that instead of pumping the smell of popcorn onto the streets, as theaters will do to entice people to see a movie (it works btw) they substituted a really sweet candy, hmmmm I guess I was wrong.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79644 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79644 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:58:49 -0500 <p>Smelled it in Park Slope- a friend at the OEM (Office for Emergency Management) says it's safe, though. But she/they don't know what it is </p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79638 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79638 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:43:02 -0500 <p>so, should I buy a gas mask?</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79636 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79636 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:29:41 -0500 <p>I smelled it last night in Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill. I hope we find out what it was. Maybe it came from the chemical plants along the NJ turnpike.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79633 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79633 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:17:06 -0500 <p>i smelled it in williamsburg/brooklyn it smelled like butterscotch, really faintly, like someone was baking</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79627 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79627 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 17:03:50 -0500 <p>there is no doubt in my mind that this is something we should be concerned about as far as terorism is concerned. we need to get real - we live in new york city! the keebler factory did not explode, releasing sugary smells in the air! and since the OEM has still not been able to determine the cause is troubling. terrorists are not going to do anything obvious, especially in new york.....did anyone ever think a plane was going to fly into a building? i truly urge everyone to remain vigilant of any other suspicious activities.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79615 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79615 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:33:42 -0500 <p>has anything like this ever happened? And why dont we know what caused it by now?</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79613 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79613 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 16:29:48 -0500 <p>You guys are all hilarious! I have been emailing this link to everyone and have gotten similar accounts. Someone even thought the smell was coming from their cell phone. I thought some candy factory had a fire or somebody was just baking their asses off. Someone does really need to get to the bottom of this. The fact that our worthless city officials still don't know what the source is disturbs me (but certainly does'nt suprise me considering they are preoccupied trying to hike up subway fares and playing politics down at ground zero) Just a thought.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79601 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79601 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:48:20 -0500 <p>He who smelt it, dealt it.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79596 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79596 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:30:31 -0500 <p>I smelled it in Morningside Heights and I thought I was going crazy! Thought I caught a wiff this morning too.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79593 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79593 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:21:51 -0500 <p>I bet it was a big test of Odor Screen</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79590 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79590 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:16:48 -0500 <p>smelled it in Union Square, saw lots of fire trucks there too, around, 10 p.m. Someone needs to get to the bottom of this. </p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79584 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79584 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:44:35 -0500 <p>Smelled it in Park Slope last night around 10:30 but thought I was just tired and decided to go to bed.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79569 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79569 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:06:53 -0500 <p>holy sh*t! i thought i was crazy but it was true. i thought i spilled syrup somewhere in my apartment, had a hankering for pancakes and i dont even like them.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79557 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79557 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:40:53 -0500 <p>i just heard from my mother that she smelled this sometime around 3-4 AM all the way up in greenwich. said she thought someone was up making pancakes, then saw it reported on TV. bizarre. it really does sound like something from a comic book like batman or the x-men.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79556 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79556 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:39:05 -0500 <p>Geezus, I smelled it in Park Slope as well.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79545 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79545 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:02:03 -0500 <p>freaky. i was just trying to locate the source of the smell in my apartment when i read this,</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79544 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79544 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:58:30 -0500 <p>Oh ya! So crazy how subliminal that smell was, cause I just realized, I picked up some dunken donuts this morning, and guess what flavor? "BINGO!" Maple, with Halloweenie sprinkles on top. Crazy!</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79540 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79540 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:49:42 -0500 <p>My coworkers and I smelled it, and we live all over the city: Central Harlem, Morningside Heights, and Hell's Kitchen. I agree, it smelled like fake maple syrup. The smell permeated my apartment, even with no windows open. Will the city actually release the information if they figure out it was something dangerous or it was someone using a harmless substance to test air patterns?</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79541 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79541 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:49:42 -0500 <p>I first noticed the smell as I was driving home from the Upper West Side (around 75th) when I arrived in Central Harlem (135h and Lenox) it was still strong and I assumed it was the bunch of flowers I was given (you know the maple syrup smelling kind). Maybe the maple syrup smell is some widespread project aimed at making us smarter. Or dumber. It's a government conspiracy aimed at distracting us from society's ills and corruption by creating an overwhelming need for breakfast foods. If only the X-files was still around - they could do their own "Ripped from the Headlines"...</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79539 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79539 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:47:39 -0500 <p>What I find interesting is that this morning I was not in the slightest bit hung over after consuming my fair share of sauce last night. If this has anything to do with last night’s air quality, I think I could get use to the sweet smell of maple.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79534 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79534 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:43:42 -0500 <p>If it wasn't malicious or a test dont you all think someone would have claimed responsibility by now???? </p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79533 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79533 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:42:16 -0500 <p>I smelled the maple syrup last night beginning at around 10:00pm inside my apartment in Hoboken, NJ! I thought that I was smelling remnants of blueberry pancakes that I had made the last two weekends in a row, until I realized that I hadn't had any syrup for the pancakes! My husband thought that I was crazy with my syrup reception, until he read about it online today!</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79531 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79531 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:40:13 -0500 <p>Ya, my fiance and I were walking to the cash machine on the Upper East Side, and I was like... "Something smells sweet, like those Canadian Maple Syrup candies you get at the Duty Free." And he was like, "Ya, you're right, I love those. Hmmmm... Where is that coming from?" We looked around for a bakery, or a dunken donuts, and didn't see one in sight. Then my fiance says, "I bet it's from the Starbucks up on the corner." And I was like, "Ya, probably." We walked up to the corner, and were a bit confused, and then just attributed it to all the empty syrup bottles in the trash on the curb. We didn't really speak of it sense... Very curious, indeed... Funny how it was all over NYC!?!?!?</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79527 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79527 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:36:08 -0500 <p>Definitely smelled it in downtown Brooklyn all night. Never thought it was a bad thing though - better than most aromas that can waft around this city.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79521 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79521 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:25:54 -0500 <p>I smelled it too! I can't believe this. I was in my apartment near Columbia U. I thought someone was making pancakes..it was such a strong odor. This is kind of scary. </p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79519 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79519 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:22:46 -0500 <p>i too smelt the syrupy goodness in Chinatown near City Hall. i was just happy it wasn't the usual smells of garbage and fish. i think it's part of a guerilla marketing campaign. i ended up eating maple-flavored oatmeal this morning. Quaker and Aunt Jemima must be stoked. On the Domino Sugar Factory comment...don't people live there now? no longer really a factory? </p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79512 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79512 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:02:39 -0500 <p>Great point from Brightliner! I did actually think that smell was more cheap, pseudo maple syrup (Yankee Candle-y "maple") smell than real woodsy-cabin, expensive stuff in the glass/metal decanter. </p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79509 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79509 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:54:31 -0500 <p>Just a nitpick: Mrs. Butterworth's, as shown in the 1010 WINS graphic, isn't real maple syrup. There's just no comparison between the real thing and those phony pancake syrups.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79504 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79504 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:47:29 -0500 <p>Wasn't Vermont doing some kind of tourism campaign in NY recently? Perhaps this is a subliminal trick to get people to take a long drive for some pancakes with GENUINE Vermont maple syrup....</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79502 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79502 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:45:47 -0500 <p>So weird. Last night I said to my husband, "Doesn't it smell like hazelnut coffee in here?" I had no idea until just now that the whole city apparently smelled like that (despite the fact that I couldn't quite accurately identify the smell). </p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79501 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79501 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:44:49 -0500 <p>I live in Park Slope. I've yet to make pancakes in my apartment. That's why I was puzzled about the smell. Last night I thought it was odd. Now I'm somewhat nervous.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79500 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79500 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:42:58 -0500 <p>Smelled it in Newark about an hour ago. It smells better than the usual Passaic stench.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79498 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79498 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:40:29 -0500 <p>I amazingly thought absolutely nothing of it except why did I smell like maple syrup. For some weird reason, I knew I hadn't actually eaten any, but I guess I didn't care enough to think that it could be coming from anywhere else. But holy crap ... the whole city? 83rd and Broadway smelled it, that's for sure!</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79493 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79493 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:33:07 -0500 <p>I smelled it last night around 9:30. I was walking east towards the LES. I just figured it was the Domino's Sugar Plant making all sorts of treats for the holidays. </p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79491 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79491 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:31:49 -0500 <p>Holy freaking shit!! I smelled in our building on W.14th all the way up to 21st and then inside my aparmtnet on the UES. I'm glad I'm not going crazy!!!</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79487 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79487 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:25:35 -0500 <p>Oh my god, I thought I was insane last night, I definitely smelled it in Battery Park City!</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79483 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79483 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:22:23 -0500 <p>I smelled it in Park Slope around 8:00pm.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79482 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79482 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:20:25 -0500 <p>I kid you not....Maple syrup urine disease " Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) is caused by the inability to metabolize the branched-chain amino acids leucine, isoleucine, and valine. The disease is called MSUD because urine from affected people smells like maple syrup." http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000373.htm</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79477 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79477 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:11:38 -0500 <p>Maybe its like Ghostbusters but instead of Stay Puff Marshmallow man its a giant Mrs. Buttersworth like the picture. Just in time for Halloween.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79475 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79475 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:11:11 -0500 <p>I smelled it at Columbia University last night, although I thought it smelled like a frappachino or something from Starbucks.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79474 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79474 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:10:49 -0500 <p>i feel cheated, I didn't smell anything in greenpoint!!! :( maybe it's because I'm a little stuffed up, but nobody I knew mentioned anything. I guess the normal gross funk that encases greenpoint overpowered the sugary maple syrup treat last night.... grrr</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79472 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79472 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:05:23 -0500 <p>seriously, if it is benzoic acid (or something else serious), wouldn't that be a way to test powder dispersion within a large city? i smelled it on and off all day, but it was specifically strongest in our bathroom last night. (we assumed the neighbors were cooking in their kitchen thru the wall.) i hate to be a conspiracy theorist, but if the smell was coming through the water pipes, that's really not so good...</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79470 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79470 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:01:11 -0500 <p>I walked across the pulaski bridge towards home in greenpoint last night (past the aformentioned candle factory) and I was actually like, thank god they are brewing a new scent other than the highway reststop strawberry they usually make. It did smell distinctly like maple syrup- I had assumed it was a new fall scent. How weird (and also scary if there are chemical implications)</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79465 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79465 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:54:19 -0500 <p>Smelled it in the South Slope, too. </p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79462 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79462 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:52:52 -0500 <p>I kid you not....Maple syrup urine disease " Maple syrup urine disease (MSUD) is caused by the inability to metabolize the branched-chain amino acids leucine, isoleucine, and valine. The disease is called MSUD because urine from affected people smells like maple syrup." http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000373.htm</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79460 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79460 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:52:10 -0500 <p>I got a whiff of it in the Lower East Side around 9pm. Maybe the film crew on Rivington was having a pancake dinner?</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79458 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79458 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:51:46 -0500 <p>Same smell in Park Slope. I kept smelling my robe and thinking "When did I spill waffles all over myself?"</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79456 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79456 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:51:20 -0500 <p>It's kind of funny, but at the same time, I don't think that this completely a laughing matter. I'm sure that behind the scenes, the NYPD was seriously checking this out because some chemical weapons have a sweet or fruity smell, not chemical smelling at all.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79453 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79453 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:47:23 -0500 <p>smelled it in fort greene, brooklyn and commented to my girlfriend, "did someone have a waffle bonfire?" what is it???!!!!</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79452 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79452 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:42:01 -0500 <p>I smelled it in Bayonne last night too. I thought it was a great improvement over the usual smells.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79449 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79449 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:25:33 -0500 <p>well, if we're all a victim of a terrorist attack, at least it was a cloud of maple syrup smell and not a cloud of feces stank.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79447 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79447 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:17:52 -0500 <p>I smelled it in Brooklyn Heights! made me hungry for pancakes and waffles.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79443 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79443 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:14:53 -0500 <p>I've been wondering, too, why everyone finds this so entertaining (though I must admit the 1010Wins graphic of Aunt Jemima and the Empire State Bldg is kind of cute). I'm pretty damn scared. I've lived all over the NY metro area, and you smell factory smells/spills all the time from weird sources. But nothing like this, so pervasive -- yet it was also very subtle. I kept thinking it was something I'd gotten on my clothes, not something wafting in from outside. I work in an ad agency, and someone joked that maybe this was a really great promotion for IHOP. If that's the case, I'm abandoning this sick industry immediately.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79442 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79442 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:14:05 -0500 <p>my theory is that some sinister maple syrup corporation or the IHOP chain decided to pump maple syrup flavoured water into the sewage system, and last night the water vaporised and blanketed the city, a la Batman Begins. Hence this morning everyone's waking up and craving pancakes and maple syrup!</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79441 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79441 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:13:41 -0500 <p>Does anyone think this is a test by terrorists, using a non-toxic/easily located gas? Say, to see how effectively they could gas the entire city from one bomb site?</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79440 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79440 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:11:56 -0500 <p>Its EGGO-Terrorism!</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79439 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79439 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:06:38 -0500 <p>I don't know why this is being taken lightly, either. For example, Pat Kiernan and Molly Kroon were laughing about it this morning on NY1. However, is there anyone who thinks that this could have been caused by anything other than a major chemical release? A Google search for "maple syrup like odor" produces 'Benzoic Acid', C6H5COOH for those who might care. Also: BENZOIC ACID information from Flinn Scientific, Inc. P.O. Box 219 Batavia, IL White crystalline powder with a maple syrup-like odor. Slightly toxic by ingestion. Severe irritant. Avoid contact with skin, eyes and respiratory tract. Combustible solid. Flinn at a Glance: Health-1 Flammability-1 Reactivity-1 Exposure-1 Storage-0 0 is low hazard; 3 is high hazard So it doesn't seem to be particulary hazardous (IF this is even what is causing the smell). Also, the industrial uses are: The industrial applications are as a corrosion inhibitor, as an additive to automotive engine antifreeze coolants and in other waterborne systems, as a nucleating agents for polyolefin, as a dye intermediate, as a stabilizer in photographic processing and as a catalyst. Wide range of benzoic esters are used as solvents, dying carrier, disinfectant additive, penetrating agent and pesticides and manufacturing other compounds. So maybe (very wild guess) someone was using it as an antifreeze in something, but it boiled off into the atmosphere? Do we have any industrial chemists in here? </p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79438 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79438 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:05:13 -0500 <p>Just in time for Halloween - the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man has farted!</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79437 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79437 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:05:12 -0500 <p>it was just an alien invasion from the planet pancake.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79436 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79436 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:04:16 -0500 <p>i was in a basement theatre and could smell it. (west village.)</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79435 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79435 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:03:01 -0500 <p>I smelled it in the Central Village and figured I needed a shower. This makes me feel better... sort of.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79434 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79434 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:01:02 -0500 <p>OK...I smelled this in Hoboken. I thought a neighbor was baking something yummy & I was jealous! </p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79432 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79432 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:35:16 -0500 <p>Does anyone have any idea of what is going on? Why are emergency responses state and Federal still testing the air if this is just a normal occurrence? Any answers?</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79431 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79431 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:28:37 -0500 <p>I was just thinking about all the talk about the Old Domino Sugar Factory. I was wondering if they broke some new ground?</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79430 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79430 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:25:52 -0500 <p>Well...i'm on Forest Ave in Staten Island and it sure smells like syrup here too.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79429 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79429 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:22:35 -0500 <p>It also smells liek maple syrup in NJ: Fort Lee, CLiffside Park, Teterboro, Hasbrouck Heights......</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79428 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79428 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:20:35 -0500 <p>I thought I was crazy last night- I was smelling it all night in my apartment on the UWS (100th & Amsterdam). I'm so glad to know it wasn't just me!</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79427 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79427 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:20:26 -0500 <p>There are reports that the people smelled the maple syrup smell in different states. This is VERY strange!</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79422 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79422 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:13:31 -0500 <p>Gothamist, you MUST get to the bottom of this! I totally kept catching a whiff of maple syrup last night while I was lying in bed trying to go to sleep in Long Island City. Very light, but it kept driving me crazy. I assumed I was having some sort of brain tumor-induced olfactory hallucination. Eventually, I concluded it was probably my Bath & Body Works Pumpkin Body Butter and fell asleep. Anyone still smelling it today?</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79421 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79421 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:09:21 -0500 <p>Smelled it in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn last night. I thought it was coming from an old cup of coffee. Guess not.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79420 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79420 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:08:30 -0500 <p>Sorry everybody...I left the windows open last night while I was making a batch of my famous maple sugar rice krispie treats</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79418 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79418 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:06:29 -0500 <p>I don't like it at all!! Why is the smell in so many different areas around the City. I think this is being taken too lightly! </p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79414 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79414 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:55:55 -0500 <p>this is ridiculous. smelled it all last evening in park slope/BK...</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79413 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79413 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:54:08 -0500 <p>The maple sugar smell is a terrorist plot to incapacitate our city by inducing insuin shock on a massive scale hitherto unknown.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79411 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79411 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:53:58 -0500 <p>i too smelled it in east village & then in harlem last night -- glad to know that i wasn't going (too) crazy -- kept asking my boyfriend about it...</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79407 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79407 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:36:59 -0500 <p>We could definately smell it in Long Island City, but assumed it was the candle factory in Greenpoint.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79406 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79406 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:35:39 -0500 <p>So I come out of the woolworth building and smell caramel... and then there's like eight fire trucks, a couple of police cars and random assorted emergency services parked up and down the stretch of broadway by the city hall subway stop, so I assume that whatever they're dealing with has something to do with the smell (maybe it did...?) But then I could smell it again around astor place, so maybe it didn't.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79405 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79405 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:33:25 -0500 <p>Wow, I thought it was just me. I smelled maple syrup last night inside my apartment - I thought I had spilled some syrup from breakfast the day before, and I was obsessed with figuring out where it was! Thanks for letting me know I'm not crazy. </p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79404 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79404 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:33:07 -0500 <p>definitely caught a whif in Carroll Gardens last night, but not Windsor Terrace.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79403 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79403 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:30:20 -0500 <p>whoa! we smelled it all night in Hell's Kitchen! we were going nuts trying to figure out where it was coming from...</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79400 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79400 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:19:08 -0500 <p>We had a very similar smell even out here in Hackensack, NJ. The wind must have carried it over?</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79396 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79396 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:05:43 -0500 <p>A Canadian terrorist attack?</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79395 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79395 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:01:39 -0500 <p>I smelled it too. I was racking my brains all day trying to figure out how I got maple syrup on my hands! I live in the East Village and work in Chelsea.</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79393 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79393 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:41:15 -0500 <p>I smelt it in East Harlem</p> http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79387 http://www.gothamist.com/2005/10/28/maple_sugar_smell_mystery.php#comment-79387 Comments Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:33:20 -0500 <p>holy shit, I love you guys! I thought I was having a stroke last night. I could smell it in Brooklyn too. I could not figure out where it was coming from. I thought it was someone cooking near my house. But then I left, and smelled it the entire night. What the hell was that?</p>